Table-waiter



(No Model.)

I. A. CLAY.

TABLE WAITER.

No. 562,169. Patented June 16, 1896.

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FRANCIS A. GLAY, OF NEWFIELDS, NEIV HAMPSHIRE.

TABLE-WAITER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,169, dated June 16, 1896.

Application filed March 11, 1896- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS A. CLAY, of Newfields, county of Rockingham, State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Table-WVaiters, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of an improved table-waiter adapted to be placed on a table and receive the dishes containing the food to be served, the said waiter having as part of it a circular revoluble top of simple and peculiar construction, as will be hereinafter described, the central hub of the top resting on a second hub sustained by a tripod, the latter readily adapting itself to and setting firmly on an ordinary table without tipping or jarring, notwithstanding the said table may be uneven in its surface.

Figure 1 is a vertical cross-section of my improved table-waiter, the section being in the line a 00, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is an under side view of the said waiter. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail to be referred to, and Fig. 4 a modification.

The waiter consists of two hubs a b, one adapted to turn on the other about a center bolt 0. The under hub to receives three legs 0 c 0 which are extended radially and downwardly making a tripod to rest firmly and evenly on the top of any usual table A. The upper hub 11 is chambered internally and its wall is provided, as herein shown, with four screw-threaded holes,in'which are screwed the threaded inner ends of the spokes d, the said spokes being conically pointed at their outer ends, as best shown in the enlargedsection, Fig. 3, the said conical points. entering conical seats made in a metallic hoop e, shown as circular and composed of substantially halfround iron, the rotation of the threaded ends of the spokes in the hub 12 causing the spokes to be moved longitudinally to enter the conical seats and hold the metallic hoop firmly and evenly in place.

The waiter-topf, preferably of sheet metal, is laid on the hoop e, and a second hoop e is laid on the top just above the lower hoop e,, and the two hoops and top are connected to- Serial No. 582,755. (No model.)

gether by any desired number of suitable screws 6 and if desired the upper ring may be provided with handle-pieces g, the shanks of which may extend through the top and into the lower ring. The annular space at the in terior of both hubs may contain oil or any lubricant.

The top f may be made more or less ornamental by japan, paint, &c., or it may be ornamented in any manner commonly employed in connection with sheet tin or zinc.

To conceal the edge of the top, the ring 6 may be cut away at its outer edge and the upper ring may have a lip to fit down over the outer edge of the lower ring and pinch a flanged edge of the top between them, as seen in Fig. 3. The screws might be put directly into the top and then into the under ring.

This invention is not limited to the particular shape shown in cross-section for the hoops c and e, and they may be made as shown in Fig. 4, or in any other usual or suitable shape, and in some instances I might use but one hoop, viz., the hoop 6, but I prefer to use two hoops.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described table-waiter, consisting of a ring e, a top secured thereto, a hub b, a series of threaded spokes, screwed into the said hub and engaging at their outer ends the said ring to hold it firmly, and a second hub a, pivoted with relation to the hub b, and having legs to support the said hub, substantially as described.

2. In a table-waiter, a top, two rings 6,

e, between which the edges of the top are clamped, a hub 12, a series of, threaded spokes screwed into said hub, and having their outer ends engaged with the ring 6, a hub-a pivotally connected with the hub 12, and a tripod to support said hub a, to operate, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS A. CLAY.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, MARGARET A. DUNN. 

